Brussels, 05/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has decided to lift, with effect from 3 May, the ban on British beef that has been in place since March 1996,the height of the bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE) crisis. This decision comes after receiving the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health in early March (see EUROPE 9147). On 3 May, France, which, prior to the mad cow crisis, was the main EU importer of British beef, published the...